Mother and Child straw hat where dance serves as prayer

where dance serves as prayer

for every girl and boy

Show how to be there

An open edition work of art by Fred Mathews that depicts a young African American girl dressed up like a member of the Order of the Eastern Star

This limited edition of 950 is printed as an offset lithograph on paper

Mother and Child straw hat where dance serves as prayerSome bonds exist beyond language, beyond time, and beyond the reach of any single artistic tradition. Anthony Armstrong understood this when he created Mother and Child, a composition that reaches into the oldest subject in art history and reclaims it through an Afrocentric lens. The mother sits low and grounded, her body a landscape of warm golden ochre, amber, and sienna, rendered with Armstrong's signature continuous black contour lines that loop